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The debate over prescription drug coverage comes down to a question of values, ... President Bush an... NANCY PELOSI They are only for people who don't have insurance or whose prescription is not covered by insurance....
DEBBIE FLINN
However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have ... MIKE FITZPATRICK
I'm very committed to stable and adequate funding for education. KATE BROWN Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased th...
MARTY MEEHAN
More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen ... DAN LIPINSKI His tax cut is so big that he leaves no money to pay for a new prescription drug benefit without usi...
KENT CONRAD We are getting dozens of calls a day asking for details about the Medicare prescription-drug coverag...
JOHN ARNOLD Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without prescription drug coverage should begin to see...
MIKE ROGERS It also reflects the wrong priorities by cutting important programs like education and Medicare to f...
CARL LEVIN
The Prescription Drug Benefit we passed in Congress is already working to make prescription drugs av... MARK KENNEDY Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benef...
BENNIE THOMPSON
We must provide adequate funding for an essential program that serves as a lifeline to some of our m... OLYMPIA SNOWE More than 60 percent of the eligible beneficiaries have signed up to receive prescription drug cover...
LESLIE NORWALK
It was good to be gay on Top of the Pops years before it was good to be gay in Parliament, or gay in... CAITLIN MORAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The intent of that money was to provide funds for prevention, treatment, education and cessation pro...
LISA TURNER If there is a Phase Two, it may not be as large. What we may see is funding support ... increased fo...
HAROLD MARTIN But that's exactly why we think it's incredibly important that people be able to afford these produc...
DEE MAHAN The new Medicare prescription drug benefit takes full effect at the end of this year, and it will pr...
JON KYL My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH a...
RALPH REGULA This plan was supposed to provide coverage for people who had no drug coverage. It was supposed to h...
JEANNE FINBERG Every Medicare beneficiary can choose whether they want prescription drug coverage or not,
TOM DASCHLE The funding we do receive, we'll be using that to help us continue to provide services for our presc...
BRENDA TEMPLE During this transition period, Medicare beneficiaries will face a broad array of new benefit choices...
BLUE CROSS 2003 looks like it very well may be the year where seniors are able to get the prescription drugs th...
ARI FLEISCHER The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit is a valuable program for millions of Americans, but we recog...
CHRIS VIEHBACHER The simplest way to reduce the cost of prescription drugs would've been to require Medicare to negot...
ROGER HICKEY Without intending to ... he offered a laundry list of the policy failures of his own administration:...
KAREN HUGHES What this budget does is express (Schwarzenegger's) best judgment of how all the competing needs of ...
ALAN BERSIN Having Medicare drug coverage underscores the need for seniors to talk to doctors and pharmacists ab...
GAIL SHEARER Its the responsibility to provide facilities for the students to get a good education, and right now...
EDWARD MURPHY In order to invest in our future, we must ensure that we appropriately protect programs that provide...
JOHN F. TIERNEY Our goal with My Medicare Matters is simple. We want seniors and those with disabilities to be infor...
KATHLEEN GMEINER
It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that wi... OLYMPIA SNOWE
Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies t... NANCY PELOSI Those who sign up for a Medicare prescription-drug plan will have prescription coverage. They will b...
JACK COX The current disarray surrounding the Medicare prescription drug program should serve as a warning to...
JUDITH SOLOMON Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im...
SUSAN COLLINS President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, ...
BILL SHUSTER Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to prov...
JIM RILEY Lack of adequate NIH funding is particularly dangerous in a relatively small field like spinal cord ...
KATHY LEWIS When you want to save money for seniors, that may mean smaller profits for drug stores.
MARK MERRITT Seniors appear to be filling incremental prescriptions, given additional drug coverage.
DAVID RISINGER We have some really small schools that are so small that they can't even afford counselors, libraria...
TERRY ABBOTT Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit...
JOHN SHIMKUS President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extende...
DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ While we are in the process of deploying U.S. Army troops for possible combat in Iraq, the Administr...
CHET EDWARDS When you combine that with large amounts of alcohol, you have a prescription for some problems.
BRUCE BENSON These are people and organizations that will provide materials, equipment or funding for related cur...
JOYCE HALDEMAN While others may cloud their judgment by emotional zeal to cut taxes, it is my hope that we focus on...
DAVID LAWSON
I am a little concerned that some of the measures that are proposed may simply increase the number o... ALASDAIR MORGAN So, if a beneficiary is concerned about going into that coverage gap, and not wanting to face 100 pe...
GEORGE KELEMAN
When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by fo... CHELLIE PINGREE
Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers a... SOLOMON ORTIZ This drug coverage program was clearly designed by Republicans in Congress to serve the interests of...
SHERROD BROWN
Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet... JIM CLYBURN
I want to emphasize one point — we are not trying to deny the mill a permit to operate. We are ask... WALT WEST It would make it much more difficult to provide an adequate free public education for our children.
ANNEMARIE SPADAFORA At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and full...
DENNIS HASTERT Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, ...
JENNY MCCARTHY For years, the Democrats promised a prescription drug plan and never delivered.
JASON KELLO These vulnerable seniors and people with disabilities had good coverage under Medicaid. Now they are...
JEANNE FINBERG Well, there's a lot of types of tax cuts in the menu ... Some people are talking about an across-the...
DENNIS HASTERT
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w... C.S. LEWIS
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w... C. S. LEWIS One reason we want to collect the use tax and have been very aggressive about it is that 100 percent...
DANNY BRAZELL
The more we look at drug resistance, the more concerned we are. It basically shows us that the end o... TOM FRIEDEN It will provide substantial relief for those with very high drug costs and will provide modest relie...
BILL NOVELLI
Using prescription drug monitoring programs is an important step in identifying patients who may be ... TOM FRIEDEN They would provide a significant amount of the local (funding) match that could alleviate the need f...
JACOB SNOW I think our seniors have gone 220 years without a prescription drug benefit, ... I don't think they ...
JEB HENSARLING When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and...
MICHAEL BURGESS An issue like prescription drugs is an opportunity for Democrats to regain their advantage with seni...
GEOFF GARIN
Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I... BLANCHE LINCOLN
If Congress will pass a plan that gives real, voluntary Medicare prescription drug coverage ... then... CHELSEA CLINTON Even though cities are the very center of homeland security, they seem to be an afterthought when it...
KAREN ANDERSON At a time when millions are displaced and seeking federal and state assistance, we believe it is ina...
GORDON SMITH
The coverage gap is like a cruel trick that the administration is playing on our nation's seniors, .... FRANK LAUTENBERG This new prescription drug plan was supposed to be a voluntary program to help people who didn't hav...
JEANNE FINBERG It makes sense that seniors would be invited to a discussion about the prescription drug benefit pro...
ALLEN ABNEY Ever-increasing surpluses allow us to provide for large tax cuts as well as shore up the solvency of...
WILLIAM ROTH We must recognize the fact that adequate food is only the first requisite for life. For a decent and...
NORMAN BORLAUG
Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you:
education, education and education. TONY BLAIR You know something is wrong when you are known for what you are against, instead of what you are for...
JADE HAJJ
The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchangin... JOE LIEBERMAN The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchangin...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN We have some good opportunities on mandatory boater education. I think that is a very important thin...
BRUCE DUNGAN What this budget does is express (Schwarzenegger's) best judgment of how all the competing needs of ...
ALAN BERSIN
Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that emplo... PANKAJ MISHRA
A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con. TONY ABBOTT
The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday ... MARK ZANDI If the Republican Congress had been as concerned with the welfare of Medicare beneficiaries as it wa...
HENRY A. WAXMAN
Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I... BLANCHE LINCOLN
Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding f... BOBBY SCOTT The more important development more recently was the tax cut that was enacted over the weekend, whic...
HENRY WILLMORE It is very difficult for a major university to manage a large budget cut, ... His biggest legacy is ...
BILL WEBSTER a very solid, very realistic starting point for the discussions about education funding in 2006.
THE ASSEMBLY Democratic amendments led to a package with a smaller tax cut, far more resources for paying down th...
KENT CONRAD I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate fund...
DAN MAFFEI
